Suddenly, a blood-curdling shriek pierced the air as a figure hurtled into Good Sara. Sending her sprawling onto the pavement, Karen cried, "Oh no you don't!!!! NO ONE lays a FINGER on MY friends!!!!!!!!!!!" As GS lay heaving facedown on the ground, desperately trying to regain her breath and focus on this new development, Karen tended to BS [ooh Sara, is that such a wise abbreviation?]: "Sara? Sara, are you all right? Here, let me help you with those handcuffs." Karen used her forearms of steel to wrench the cuffs away and helped her dear friend to her feet. With an evil chortle and a nasty lil' gleam in her eye (a "Bad Sara" trademark) BS brushed off her clothing and took off down the sidewalk.
"That it!" Karen cried after her, "Run! Run as fast as you can! No one shall harm you now!" At this point GS, her face still plastered to the concrete, let out a muffled sputter. With a snarl, Karen grabbed her golden hair, wrenching her head upwards forcefully. Sara spit the gravel out of her mouth and screamed at Karen, "You IMBECILE!!!!!! Do you have the slightest INKLING what you've just DONE?!!!!!!!!!!" Karen, shocked by the familiarity of the attacker's voice, released her hold on GS's head, letting it fall back to the concrete with a thud.
Regaining her composure, she quickly rolled GS over, and stared at her face in bewilderment. "Sara? SARA? But but...." She blinked at Good Sara a couple times, jerked her head up to stare at the blond figure receding into the distance (chuckling manically all the way), and then stared blankly down at GS once again. All this confusion hurt Karen's brain, and she was forced to sit down on the sidewalk as she attempted to sort things out. Then she noticed the twisted tiara that lay next to her, and picking it up, tried it on. "Give me that!!!!!" GS screeched furiously, grabbing at the plastic costume prop. Returning it to its rightful place on her own head, she glared murderously in Karen's direction and spat out "Now if you'll EXCUSE ME, I have work to do, seeing as you've just set me back a decade."
Leaving (stupid) Karen sputtering in confusion and indignation on the sidewalk, Sara strode to her car as tears of bitterness and frustration began to stream down her cheeks.
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